The Counsel of Trent (Lott Expects to Be Majority Leader Again in 2007)

Wrong! The voters voted for Nixon in 1972--beat McGovern in a landslide. When he resigned with the threat of impeachment, he was villified by the (Democrat-controlled) press.

Yes Nixon won re-election 30 years ago, at the same time the voters re-elected a rat House and Senate for the 12th time in a row. And this is pertinent how?

I believe that had the impeachment been successful in booting (the less-than-majority-elected) Clinton from office, the voters would have been ambivalent about it, not outraged.

and yet we lost seats in 98 after the House impeachment. You can believe anything you wish but you have not supported your opinion with any substance. Clinton at his worst, unimpeded by a Republican controlled congress...during the AWB, Waco, tax increases, Hillary care, and scandal after scandal still won almost half of the vote in 1996. The rats say Dubya won in 2000 with less than a majority to help them deal with the fact that they were out of touch with the voters...don't give yourself a false sense of security. The electorate is moving to the right, but they are not conservative yet.

I and almost everyone I know would have been overjoyed.

I and almost everyone I know were disappointed that the Senate failed to convict Clinton. We were disappointed that the voters punished Republicans in the 98 elections. I had hoped the voters would have been outraged by the degradation of the White House and the office of President. In 2000 Gore won the popular vote. This too was disappointing since I and almost everyone I know voted against Gore. You and everyone you know are a very small number of people compared to 100 million voters. You and I are conservatives. We represent a little over 1/3rd of the voters. A little under 1/3rd of the voters are liberal. The rest are RINOs and DINOs and they are up for grabs. If the rats get a majority of DINOs and RINOs to vote for rats...we lose power.

It is entirely possible that Hillary will win in 2008. I bet you and everyone you know votes against Hillary.

Yeah, and thanks to the Senate we lost our chance to pay down any part of the debt.

What do you mean? The House appropriates funds. The Senate is only part of the budget process. Even the President is partially responsible for signing the final bill. Why do you heap scorn on the Senate, and what does that have to do with the balanced budgets that were passed while Lott was Majority leader and Clinton was President?

And he also gave us POWER SHARING.

The reason they shared leadership is because it looked like Strom was going to die and in fact he did die in 2003. It was thought at the time that South Carolina rat Gov Hodges would appoint a rat Senator in Strom's place, thus giving the majority to the rats. Strom dying would have changed a 50-50 tie with a tie breaking Republican Vice President, to 49 Republicans and 51 rats. When Jumpin Jim Jeffords switched sides, this is essentially what we had.

It takes a good deal of time and planning to make the US Congress work as ineptly as they do. There are staffing, budgets, chairmanships, and office changes when a party become a majority. The shared leadership agreement prevented legislative shutdown while the new rat majority moved in. I'm glad someone was thinking ahead. I shudder to think what would have happened if Jeffords quit the Republican party 3 months later when the towers fell. We would of had a much harder time recovering from the attack without the shared leadership agreement

"We can both agree the voters were wrong, but Representatives are supposed to represent not dictate."

And presidents are supposed to be role models and always tell the truth under oath (and not under oath for that matter). He DEFINATELY should have been CONVICTED BY THE SENATE AFTER BEING THE ONLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IMPEACHED BY THE HOUSE. Representatives represent yes, but presidents aren't dictators. (Never mind the line it was "only about sex".)

I will not say the ugly things many here want to say about Trent Lott. He absolutely got stabbed in the back by some of our fellow Republicans. I hope his drive to get even, if there is one doesn't cause harm. I think he is more skilled than Frist in negotiating but i definitely hold it against him that he is the main one who agreed to a no-trial trial of our past perjuring president.

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